Knives mattered. No man should be without a pocket-knife, preferably gold-handled. How else would you peel and orange, or cut a sprig of privet blossom for your second-youngest daughter? A blunt knife was not just a bad way to hurt an onion, but sacrilege, and insult to God's creation, its beauty and its excellence.
-as excerpted from this obituary of Robert Capon
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